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  1. Re:Not the format on Aussie Government Gives PDF the Thumbs Down · · Score: 1

    lol did they miss the plugin that acrobat provides for word

  2. Re:US companies created neither jobs nor export on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 1

    It will be interesting if SF (the political wing of the IRA) get in at the next election - some of the Big US companies should have kept their heads down as they could easily get the same treatment that BP got in the USA - if some politician wanted some one to blame. - Worst case I could see riots - don't forget Ireland had a civil war within living memory.

  3. Re:Defaulting is worse! on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 1

    well the grads from trinity will do what Irishmen have done for generations emigrate.

  4. Re:Wait... on USCG Sues Copyright Defense Lawyer · · Score: 1

    TY I should have remembered that Texas was the state that wanted it security pros to get PI licences if they wanted to be expert witnesses

  5. Re:Wait... on USCG Sues Copyright Defense Lawyer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    cant see any judge even the "hem hem" dodgy ones in east Texas objecting to a lawyer plying his trade

  6. um 98% wastage was Re:What do they have to hide? on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 2

    or the fact that the Generals had said that the first waves ashore in operation Olympic would be facing 98% wastage - you can see why they used the Bomb

  7. Re:For what purpose? on Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? · · Score: 1

    >>I have a friend who spent more on her cello *case* than my current computer cost. *shrug*. I once worked with a guy in BT who had a sideline as a Jazz Violinist I rember once he said he had his Violin with him and commented 's his second best bow which was worth getting on for £800. Though he was semi pro and had a residency at the Balmorral (best hotel in edinburgh) at the Endinburgh festival one year. Even better was the developer (who had been a session musician) I worked with who used to say things in the pub "oh i think i played on that" when certain tracks came on the Jukebox.

  8. Re:not heard of CUDA have we? on The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List · · Score: 1

    interesting I am looking a LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis) for work and found there is a Fortran with CUDA extensions

  9. Re:What's with the crown icon next to the summary? on Google Warns Irish Government Against Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    yep make that mistake in the wrong bar in Ireland or NI and you are in a world of hurt a few yes ago you might have even ended up kneecapped, 50/50'd or even "missing" back in the day if you worked for the "crown forces" you where a target for the IRA. There was a huge fuss a few years ago when the company i worked for but its logo on the company car park passes as in NI that would have marked you out.

    Its not widely known that in NI a lot of people had Concealed carry permits for personal protection weapons if you worked for the state or companies that did work for them.

  10. Re:Of course... on Google Warns Irish Government Against Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    and as Irish commentators said in this weekends guardian the Irish government has major problems with cronyism, corruption and tax avoidence - which where contributing factors in the crash.

  11. not heard of CUDA have we? on The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List · · Score: 1

    the reason they use GPU's is to run the simulation tasks much more efficient. You have a good compiler that can split-up the work load - I suspect something like an extended FORTRAN

  12. Re:Why? on Cellphone Carriers Try To Control Signal Boosters · · Score: 1

    so do you get to charge AT&T and Verizon for using your property - like you do if you own land with telegraph pole on them

  13. Re:Write to the manufacturer on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    some of us have real jobs your method is not terribly efficient is it? some of us have to produce professional documents on a short time scale.

    Just use OO or you know buy a copy of Office home and student. works out at around £30 per application much less if they still allow 3 installs

  14. Re:Write to the manufacturer on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    the op wants a full tool set not just a printer driver

  15. Re:Write to the manufacturer on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    I think you miss the point creating a document in acrobat is a bitch! even tarting up an imported word doc can be a tortuous process.

  16. Re:G**k - Like N****r to me on 2010 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 1

    what about quad CCIE's

  17. Re:Seriously? Why not force registration on Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers · · Score: 1

    so we jail Guido Fawkes, Mike More and those gastly Westborough Church Nutters

  18. Re:Call me retro on Vint Cerf Calls For IPv6 Incentives In UK · · Score: 1

    Some very smart people produced the OSI networking stack doesn't mean it was the product that won out

  19. Re:Write to the manufacturer on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    have you tried to use acrobat for document creation?

  20. Re:FORTRAN on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    well i had an agent contact me looking for people with Php and FORTRAN which was an odd mix

  21. Re:Register on Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back · · Score: 1

    thats our British irony watch Top Gear for more of the Same

  22. Re:Newspaper? on Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back · · Score: 1

    yep i first read them on Dialcom systems in the mid 80's

  23. Re:$13,000 on Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back · · Score: 1

    mieow saucer of milk for J Mitchel:-) but el reg is probably much more "professional" when it comes to tech stories than 99.9% of newspapers.

  24. Re:Perfect tool found for this project! on Digital Archaeology Show Reveals 'Lost' Web Sites · · Score: 1

    yep and the Fido net people thought that the internet would destroy the fidonet culture - I wonder if they have any thing from the 80's ie PRESTEL and Telecom Gold (Dialcom)

  25. Re:Errors in summary on Critics Call For Probe Into Google Government Ties · · Score: 1

    no its quite correct Eric is a front every so often Marissa dresses up in the nurse uniform and wheels himround the googleplex where he says "your all doing very well" before taking him off for his after noon nap.

    Google "Grace Brothers" if you don't get the Joke